Ironically, Most Of The Important Things You Can Know May Have Disproportionately Little To Do With Headlines

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Ironically, Most Of The Important Things You Can Know May Have Disproportionately Little To Do With Headlines

  ~ by OneMoreOption

Sometime in my 20s, I realized the headlines atop newspapers and other media had little to do with many of the most important aspects of my life and knowledge.  I bought a book that showed the front pages of the New York Times for many key historic dates of the 20th and 21st centuries.  I had lived through some of those times, and in retrospect, many, if not most of the headlines, had little to do with the important parts of my life.

If this premise is true, it might seem counter-intuitive.  Shouldn’t the most important things to know be the things shouted from the headlines?

It is important to regularly seek to educate yourself and to submit yourself to being educated by others, because often the more important messages are not the loudest or most visible.

I could tell you the people who most prominently taught me this concept, but if you’ve read here for long, you know the usual suspects. 

Life is kind and cruel.  Some of us encounter brilliant people.  Others of us seem to get stuck with morons.  I can’t tell you how different life can be in the presence of different people.  The differences can completely alter reality.

Seek information that challenges the status quo.  When headlines suggest one thing, be suspicious and look for facts to the contrary.

If you can’t think critically and effectively for yourself, you’ll become a pawn, moved around by forces you don’t want controlling your actions.

When headlines call you to look one way, pick your head up, broaden your view, and look for more sources of data.

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Discussions

Thank you to everyone who stopped by here yesterday.  This website received the most visits it’s ever received in a day:  24,951.  By tomorrow, the posts herein will have been visited over 7,000,000 times.

That’s the headline.

As important to me, I want to thank the less than 50 of you who have from time to time regularly given both critical and encouraging feedback to the ideas suggested here.  Better knowledge tends to come more from critical discussions than from recitations.

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You Can Gain The Whole World, But Lose Your Soulmate

I know you think your priorities are important.  And they probably are important.  But whether you are building a financial nest egg for your retirement, teaching children to read, keeping people out of Hell, saving the rain forest, minimizing your carbon footprint, or any other very worthy pursuit – in the midst of all that:  If you don’t make the interests of your significant others a comparative priority, then don’t be surprised if you lose your significant others.

You must find balances and middle-grounds. 

You probably think your actions are righteous.  But when your zeal causes you to be inconsiderate of the reasonable needs and wants of your significant others, then it is reasonable for them to recognize what you are doing.

In the long run, love often becomes more about time and priority and less about declarations and emotions.

We are what we do.

Our actions reveal our loves.

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